Improvement in organ reed-boards



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NTTED STATES PATENT QEEICLEo WESLEY W. `WALKER, OF BRATTLEBOROUGH,VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN ORGAN REED-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,121, dated May 1l,1875; application filed May 1, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WESLEY W. WALKER, ot' Brattleborough, in the countyof Windham and State ot' Vermont, have invented a new and ImprovedReed-Organ Action, ot' which the followin g is a specilication:

The object of my invention is to contrive an organ in a compact andsimple form with large capacity for different combinations and varietiesof music. It consists essentially in the manner of the arrangement oftwo or more reeds directly over or partly over and partly back ot' thelower reeds, on one or both sides of an air-ce1l, through which the airis taken from the reeds into the common air-cell above the valve,through which it passes to the bellows.

The drawing is a transverse sectional elevation of an organ actionarranged according to my invention.

A represents the lower reeds, between which the action-board B is cutaway entirely to open the common air-cell C up into a main air-cell, D,for receiving the air from one or two series of reeds, E, which Iprop-ose to arrange directly over, or over and a little back ol", thelower reeds, together With the cells E under the reeds, to conduct theair into the main cell, to be constructed either by a socketboard gluedon top of the action-board, and another action-board glued on top ofthat, and so on, as high as desirable, or by grooving through the topot' a thick action-board. The air is to pass through the upper reedsinto the cells F, and then through the passages Gr into the main cell D,and then down into the common air-cell C, which is directly over thevalve H which leads to the bellows. To prevent the air from passing tooswiftly and directly along the reeds I propose not to cut thesocket-board all away at the passages Gr, but leave a portion at I undereach reed to check the air and cause it to go more directly downwardthrough the reeds, thus giving them more full and complete vibration.These soclietboards J are to he of sufficient thickness to afford therequisite depth to the cells F for such action ot' the air, and theywill Vary in this respect to correspond with the size ot' the reeds, aslarge ones will require greater depth in the sockets than small ones.rIhe reeds can all be put on one side of the main cell D when requiredin double-bankorgans. This arrange ment may extend to any number of setsof reeds that maybe required, and it may also extend any number ot'octaves. A guide-bar, K, extending across the ail-cell C or the bottomor' main cell D, will be required in this arrangement for the pin L,which opens the valve. M represents the stops to the reeds.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The socket-board ot' a reed'organ having two oppositesets of reeds, E, cells h, passages G, uncut portions I, and median cellD, all relatively arranged substantially as and for the purposespecified.

-WESLEY W. VALKER. Witnesses:

ADoLPH J. ENGsTRoM, WILLIAM S. NEWTON.

